To break the train of disgustingly optimistic unEnglish posts I predict the following:

Trott to get out to Warner's part time spin on 3 occasions.
Prior to miss 7 stumping opportunities.
Broad to beam Pattinson 3 balls in row and get taken out of the attack. Pattinson to respond with a beamer to Broad that injures him and rules him out of the series.
Australia to be awesome and win 3-0 and England to suck balls.

To break the train of disgustingly optimistic unEnglish posts I predict the following:

Trott to get out to Warner's part time spin on 3 occasions.
Prior to miss 7 stumping opportunities.
Broad to beam Pattinson 3 balls in row and get taken out of the attack. Pattinson to respond with a beamer to Broad that injures him and rules him out of the series.
Australia to be awesome and win 3-0 and England to suck balls.

love it

CATCHES WIN MATCHES
A TOLL IS A TOLL AND A ROLL IS A ROLL,
AND IF WE DON'T GET NO TOLLS, THEN WE DON'T EAT NO ROLLS

I put a bit on Watson to score the most runs in the series a few weeks ago. Just feel like this is his time and he'll make at least one really massive score. Admittedly turning 80-odd into something big has never been his strong suit, but I don't think he'll fail often.

Bell has no class. I'd say he's the most over rated player in world cricket, but really, no one who knows anything about cricket rates him at all.

Originally Posted by Burgey

I mean, really. Ian Bell is the Dean Jones of this era, without the range of stroke or the ability. Scores his runs mostly in dead rubbers on flat decks against dis-spirited attacks. He's not worth a squirt of piss.

Originally Posted by Burgey

The measure of when your team is having a really **** bowling day is when Ian Bell scores runs against them. He takes mediocrity to a new level, and blokes just blow a load over him because he looks elegant playing a cover drive. He's the soft as play dough ffs.

Originally Posted by Burgey

Well I really don't think he's as good as these Pommies think he is, just because they think he's an "elegant" player. I can strike a perfectly elegant pose as the ball passes between bat and pad and cartwheels my off stump too.

He's a putz.

Originally Posted by Burgey

Look, I'm sure he's a perfectly nice bloke and all (for a Pom, which doesn't say a great deal) but he's such a meh player.